Advanced Energy Systems Design

Immersive, collaborative, data-driven decisionmaking

Advanced Energy System Design (AESD) is a growing area at NREL that marries advanced,
immersive visualization capabilities with the lab’s hallmark energy technology and
deployment expertise to enable rapid exploration of energy system transformation options.

Through AESD, we bring technical and non-technical stakeholders together into an immersive
analysis space that is highly visual, and sometimes three dimensional, where we can
look at multiple aspects of challenges differently. For example: how much does one
city's planning scenario versus another change the investment need? At the same time,
how does the economic impact on the local community change? What kind of workers will
they need?

Visualizing the Future

NREL is a widely sought technical resource for states and local communities nationally
and globally as they develop plans to use indigenous resources in efficient, resilient,
and secure infrastructure. Our advanced visualization capabilities allow real-time
exploration of energy efficiency and renewable options during the critical early planning
phase—saving time, money and resources in the long term.

By approaching complex, multi-stakeholder, multi-variate challenges in a new way,
we meet our common mission of American energy leadership

Bring us your complex energy challenges, we’ll help you see things differently.